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At the Feet of the Goddess
Lynn Foulston
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Description for At the Feet of the Goddess
Hardcover. The feminine dimension of the Divine is omnipresent and alive in Hinduism. This work pays great attention to local details and differences between individual Indian goddesses, details relating to their diverse locations, their rich phenomenology, and their power in people's lives. Num Pages: 242 pages, colour photos. BIC Classification: HRG; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 546.
At the Feet of the Goddess embraces ritual, worship and iconography, rather than philosophy and metaphysics, in two communities. In each of these sites, as is common within many local communities across India, it is female deities that predominate. Although local worship is based on ritual and grounded in a tradition that may not be fully comprehended by its adherents, it is also partly based in, and is a reflection of, a more complex metaphysical undercurrent. Local goddesses, in particular, while representing anthropomorphized figures for the majority of their devotees, are concurrently the personifications of the abstract concept of sakti ... Read more
At the Feet of the Goddess embraces ritual, worship and iconography, rather than philosophy and metaphysics, in two communities. In each of these sites, as is common within many local communities across India, it is female deities that predominate. Although local worship is based on ritual and grounded in a tradition that may not be fully comprehended by its adherents, it is also partly based in, and is a reflection of, a more complex metaphysical undercurrent. Local goddesses, in particular, while representing anthropomorphized figures for the majority of their devotees, are concurrently the personifications of the abstract concept of sakti ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781902210445
SKU
V9781902210445
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for At the Feet of the Goddess
"...Foulston's work stands out through its great attention to local details and differences between individual Indian goddesses, details relating to their diverse locations, their rich phenomenology, here documented by new visual evidence, their presence and power in people's lives, and the joyous celebration of their existence and influence through numerous rituals and festivities. It is joy to read this book..." ... Read more